Improvement in ventilating- fruit-houses



J. S. HOUGHTON AND CHARLES B.. RES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN-A SYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 83,163, dated October 20, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT 1N vENTILATING FRUIT-Houses.

The Schedule referred vto in these Letters Patent and rnakng part of thesame.

To all whomtt may concern Be it known that We, J. S. HOUGHTON andCHARLES B. BEES, of the city and count-y of Ehiladelphia, and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and improved Mode of Ventilating Fruitand Meat-Preserving Houses; and We (lo hereby declare that the followingis a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying` drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of oininvention consists in the ventilation of rooms, cooledby ice, through a hollow wall, at a point remote from' the ice-chamber,into a ventilated loft.

The accompanying drawing represents a vertical section of the improvedhouse.

A A represent the walls of the building, there being open spaces, B,from the top of the preserving-room C, throiigh the wyall, communicatingwith the ventilated loft D, for carrying off the heat, vapors, andigases, from the preserving-room C. There are packed spaces, E, outsidethe wall A, to prevent the heat 4penef tif-ating through the Wall; andthere are packed spaces, F, around the vice-chamber G, to prevent thecooling' of the vapors as they ascend through thev ventilating hollow'.Wall.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure'

